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My Relationship with Birth Control is Boring
And I like it that way.
I see a lot of menstruating people writing about their experiences with birth control, their periods, and getting a lot off their chest. It’s been fascinating to read about, and I’m frustrated for them at the lack of options and understanding of more complex issues regarding menstruation and birth control.
I thought I would write a post just in case there are other people out there like me — who simply don’t use any form of birth control, and don’t want to.
Since my first period, my periods have been regular. I get cramps the first day, but usually one aspirin is more than enough to deal, and for the past few months, I’ve been taking nothing for them at all.
I am very lucky…I hear all these stories about irregular, painful periods. I’m very grateful for my body.
I’ve been on birth control once…when I was about 19 years old. I was only on it for six months, and I hated it. It made me angry and depressed. I didn’t want to do anything, much less have sex.
So I went off it and felt better. More like myself. My boyfriend at the time was angry and eventually broke up with me. But I didn’t really care, honestly. I didn’t want to take pills that were changing my body and hormones. I wasn’t even enjoying sex…
